
04/08/2022
A who had s€x with a 13-year-old over a three-year period has been given a short sentence because she just gave birth.
was given a 60-day sentence but will be on for 10 years after she to the on Tuesday, August 2.
She must also register as a .
Marka Bodine was teaching in the at the time.
The baby she just gave birth to is not the child of her victim, authorities told outlets.
had asked the for a 20 to 40-year .
According to , the inappropriate relationship came to last year after notified the at Intermediate School that she was the one who was being by a .
Bodine told the principal that the-then 13-year-old boy was making threats to hurt himself and had access to her private and of her.
said a of both Bodine’s and the boy’s phone showed several messages and images that were exchanged between them.
Some of the images were sexually in .
They said when he was questioned, the boy told investigators Bodine befriended him during an online video game and later began texting him, according to the affidavit.
He said the two began exchanging explicit images and had s€x shortly after he turned 13. Their relationship continued for the next three years.
The boy told authorities that Bodine even moved into his apartment complex after her divorce, and that the two had s€x in her classroom and her car several times, according to the affidavit.
Investigators said that Bodine eventually admitted to having a s€xual relationship with the former student and sending the explicit images and videos.
Bodine was arrested and charged with continuous s€xual abuse of a child.
Bodine's jail sentence is being delayed as she just had a baby.